Meaning of Wanderer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who wanders, who travels aimlessly.
2. someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
3. Any of various far-migrating nymphalid butterflies of the genus Danaus.
4. The wandering albatross, Diomedea exulans.
   colloquial

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Examples

“The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.”

“The bibliotaph buries books; not literally, but sometimes with as much effect as if he had put his books underground. There are several varieties of him. The dog-in-the-manger bibliotaph is the worst; he uses his books but little himself, and allows others to use them not at all. On the other hand, a man may be a bibliotaph simply from inability to get at his books. He may be homeless, a bachelor, a denizen of boarding-houses, a wanderer upon the face of the earth.”

“She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.”

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